1. Fallen Angels
If he had been shot with anything other than the m16 the bullet would have blown a hole in him. ... Hollow point bullets are meant to him the enemy in a single spot then upon impact the bullet expands and exits, leaving a hole where the bullet was. ...
A Summary of The Nuclear Weapons Cleanup Abstract Many people feel that nuclear weapons have served as a security mechanism for our nation. At what point is the security of our nation at more risk by having nuclear weapons and their wastes? The Hanford Nuc...
Despite his awareness that his parents, his wife, and his daughter all think he is insane, he acts out his life as a drama of paranoia and nuclear dread, fashioning an impromptu shelter out of a ping-pong table as a youth and digging a hole for a larger shelter as an adult. ...
The Cold War preceded the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. At the same time, the Soviet Union dissolved into Russia. Change began in 1985 when Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to power and sought improvement. Examining social, economic and political aspects one can outline the possible chain of events...
I. Background information: Before The War The Vietnam War, well known and brought up a lot in today's world as a comparison to the current Iraq war. This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam w...
"Pejor est bello timor ipse belli." Seneca, a Roman philosopher and dramatist, expresses that "Worse than war is the fear of war." Through this description of war, Seneca distinguishes the physical aspect of war and the emotional or psychological aspect. He also expounds that the emotional side domi...
The loss of innocence is an evident theme in both Walter Dean Meyers' "Fallen Angels" and Tim O'Brien's "The Man I Killed". Both pieces depict young men as they lose their innocence in the Vietnam War facing the inhumane acts that comes along with war. Although they are quite similar they also have ...
John F. Kennedy was a president, well loved by Americans. Even though he was only in office for one thousand days, he made a great impact on American society. The American people feel into love with his charismatic character. President Kennedy did know how to run a society but, he was not all that s...
This story is a very dark and deep one. The goes inside the mind of the Vietnam solider and the burdens these men had to face, or carry as the author put it. The story goes through the physical things these men were forced to carry, weapons, food etc. But I think the central theme is the things we c...
In part five of Conflict after the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, edited by Richard K Betts, the overall theme of the articles that were assigned was the correlation between economics and war. The four articles that were assigned test different variables of the economic question a...
The Red Scare was an era in American history full of betrayal, ignorance, and paranoia, the effects of which could be seen from suburban streets to the silver-screen and everything in between. This fearful period was plagued with some of the darkest actions in the history of our nation that eventua...
Often times in literature, an author will focus on a seemingly insignificant aspect of a character and their journey rather than the prime aspect which weighs heavier throughout the text. They're are many difficulties that men in the Vietnam War face, but not only does it exhaust ones physical state...
Yeltsin's Regime and the New Russia When the Russian Federation became an independent state at the end of 1991, many presumed that the Yeltsin regime would be able to establish a "democratic- political system and a "capitalist- economic system in a relatively short period of time. It has proved ...